[mythtv-users] OT: 3 week old HDD "Clicking" ??

[Yan Seiner]

Anthony Giggins wrote:
> How about this for a Seagate Horror story,
>
> I bought a 750GB ST3750330AS it lasted 8 months and then failed without
> warning loosing all the data including several GB of the wifes data. --WAF
>
> Drive was replaced with a refurbished drive which lasted a further 7
> months and started failing with bad sectors but I was able to backup all
> the data before sending it back.
>
> That drive was replaced with another refurbished drive, I started copying
> a few GB of data back onto the replaced drive to find Bad sectors in the
> first day of use, spoke to a Seagate tech who said this is in spec and to
> scan with the Seatools for DOS util which found errors and "repaired" them
> but as soon as I booted back into Windows the bad block errors returned,
> I'm now backing everything up on this drive constantly waiting for the
> immanent failure, I haven't had time to chase this up with Seagate or do
> any further testing but I think that will be my last purchase of a seagate
> drive.
>   

You should either buy a lottery ticket or two or start checking cables 
and power supply.

:-)

Seriously, my incidence of bad drives has gone down significantly since 
I've started investing in quality power supplies.

--Yan

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